Through the support of Make a Difference (MaD) youth development platform, the Victor and William Fung Foundation organised an Entrepreneurship Sharing by Dawn Weleski, Co-founder of Conflict Kitchen on 21 January 2016 at the Li & Fung Office in Lai Chi Kok. The sharing was attended by 22 Fung Scholars. Dawn is an exceptional young artist-entrepreneur who has started a restaurant-based project to better inform US citizens of the reality of countries with which the US is in conflict. She shared her story and challenges about setting up the Conflict Kitchen which promotes an understanding of other cultures in the US.

About Conflict Kitchen

Conflict Kitchen is an artist-run eatery that serves food from countries where the US is currently in conflict with. They use relational art as a medium (in the forms of cooking, lunch meetings and other mediative activities) to foster better understanding of these places. We are inviting them because, by extension, their story is actually about how we can possibly handle, or at least understand, conflicts through empathetic instead of confrontational processes. To us, this approach is especially worth considering, especially in view of the many conflicts within Hong Kong, between this city and Mainland China, as well as reflecting on the global situation under terrorist threat. http://conflictkitchen.org/